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Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Not handball. It hits the bottom of his ribcage.

USArsenal

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Look again, it went right past his ribcage and hit the arm in the back of that shot, not the arm in the front.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

It’s a handball. Let’s get over it and move forward.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

USArsenal I see it now. Makes it better somehow.

IBL

Yeah unfortunately I think that's correct, his arm also moves at the point of impact.

naz

Artetas post match comments are concerning. Sounds like he's sending a message to the board, third match in a row he does that.

Maybe you shouldn't have wasted cash on some of the useless players you brought in.

Mirth

naz tbh I think the board are within their rights to expect more ROI from Arteta

Qwiss

naz I agree but he didn't do it alone and he obviously wanted Sesko who the club/Edu failed to close.

Coombs

Mirth more than achieving the targets they set? I guarantee there was no deal that said "we'll buy you Calafiori if you win the league". Everyone said we were ahead of schedule when were flying high, so obviously nobody thought what we'd done so far would be enough. There was no follow through this summer because they were happy with where we were at, not because they wanted more "ROI".

Qwiss

Big Willie you have 1 angle in those twitter videos and it hides the arm.

Mirth

Coombs nothing to do with schedule, just the quality and durability of players that we’ve bought.

SimplyThePest

Coombs to be honest, I wonder if the whole "ahead of schedule" thing was used to temper the expectations of the fans for when we suddenly became competitive again. Bit of good old fashioned sandbagging.

Qwiss

Coombs Everyone said we were ahead of schedule when were flying high

Its been 5 years. We are not ahead of schedule at all.

est

What the fuck happened here?

I watched the first half and was pleasantly surprised with the performance, considering the personnel. Couldn't watch the second half, had to be driving.

I see we went 2-0 up and then fucked it all up? Can't someone give me a brief summary what went wrong?

DiabyKungFu

est Can't someone give me a brief summary what went wrong?

Defended two balls into the box poorly. That was it, really. Frustrating that we didn't even blow the win in any sort of interesting way.

invisibleman18

est I see we went 2-0 up and then fucked it all up? Can't someone give me a brief summary what went wrong?

Essentially, as seen for several seasons now it's impossible to win without Saliba even with £700m or whatever is spent on players.

est

DiabyKungFu Cheers DKF! Ah, sucks. Fucking Emery again.

Gazza M

tielemans run and finish was great, as was the delivery. but that was a winnable ball for merino. it highlighted an issue I've noticed with him struggling to track back. he's often lagging behind the ball on defensive transitions. it kind of makes him a general drag on our game because he doesn't exactly ligh the world on fire up front either.

JazzG

Oh my god that was painful, in complete control and switched off twice and they score from half chances. Last 10 mins was so painful, fuck man it felt like the goal would come but just didn't. The disallowed goal, Merino hitting the post and then Trossard at the end (think he was offside).

The footballing gods have deserted us!

Mirth

invisibleman18 nothing to do with Saliba missing. We’ve dropped plenty of points with him this season - it’s 80% Partey at RB and 20% anything else

invisibleman18

Mirth essentially that still means it's not possible to win without him because being without him means having to do those multiple positions shifts. £700m spent but no trusted backup CB option that doesn't involve weakening the team at RB and in midfield.

Xcdude24

Why not play Kiwior at CB? We did for large portions of the home stretch- I know he’s not perfect but it’s surely is a better option than what we saw today

Qwiss

Xcdude24 fully agree. To me Timber - Kiwior - Gabriel - MLS is a better back 4 than Partey at RB and Timber at CB (who seemed to be awol for both goals).

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